You know, it's funny, I seem to recall, NC, I think it was saying something about how the PC machinations are in full force for how to refer to the illegal immigrations, that some even call that migrant workers???

Anyways, I remember learning about, when I was growing up, migrant workers. They weren't illegal immigrants, they weren't even immigrants at all. They were legal workers brought to this country 'from down south' to do seasonal jobs such as agricultural work. This, of course, was at a time when the national unemployment rate was VERY low, and it still might be today, for what it's worth, but Muk, as you say, the farmer could hire the ragtags from Mexico, and there was a legitimate system to do such, and after the season was over, they would take them back home. I don't know if such a thing still goes on, or that all the migrant workers are just over here illegally now, which I doubt, but at least, in the past, there has been such a system in place.

"Guatemalan national!?"  Surely that means he was a diplomat, right? 

(okay, it still is, but it seemed like a good one-liner response)